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I also saw Boiler Room this weekend. The plot
isn't necessarily incomprehesible, if you accord the writers a
certain amount of poetic license. It is a genre flick, so you can
just sort of sit back and watch the machinery crank out the way
it normally would. You know: the script tells you there is a
financial scam central to the plot, lets you know the young
goodguy has become bound up with it, and then hopes that you get
lost in the ensuing dilemmas of the protagonist. Real life logic
is generally absent, but if you enjoy the pacing of the story and
the character development this may not be too distracting.
Personally, I thought the pacing was handled quite adeptly.
However, much of the pacing is MTV style and very rap-music
driven, so it may not be to everyone's liking. There were some
lapses as PsychProf suggests, and the characterization is
generally obtuse. I'd probably give it a three out of five. It is
good for killing a snowy afternoon. Plus, Giovanni Ribisi is
excellent in the lead role.
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